Nursery activites?

Question

Can you please tell me activities that can help children's emotional development ? Grateful for your response

Answer 1

Use of puppets and role play to act out situations that the children can identify with and learn from,

pictorial stimulus, ie, pictures of different expressions that the children can describe,

stories that can be discussed with the children that take every day situations into account - new baby, sharing, family, etc., drawing pictures of things that make me happy, sad, angry,etc and discussing with the child,

Activities to boost self esteem - amy did such and such kind  thing today, getting the kids to identify something nice another child did, getting them to identify a good thing about themselves, photos of the children with their good things beside written up beside them.

Any games that involve taking turns and team effort.

Music - all kids love music and individual expression is completely ok!

Physical activity - good for the mind and soul!

These are only ideas for activities - were you actually wanting a description of actual lessons and activities that take in all these things?

Hope there's something there for you anyway!

Answer 2

Not sure of your age range but,

Turn taking games, group activities including story time and singing even craft.

The following web site will give you age related bench marks which may help to give some focus in certain areas

www.pbs.org/wholechild/abc/social.html

Answer 3

my sons in nursey andhis teacher  was telling me what they do and why.

they play with playdoh to strenthen then hands,

the dress up for amaginative play. draw and paint,

look at picture books to start building up a picture in there head.

and do writing to practise hand, eye co-ordanation

they do other stuff like

play with water

play on the play ground aquitment

play with sand

cant remember why they do that but its all do with strenthening there hands and exspanding there mind

and touch and feel.

they also have input time where they sit down and have there say with things and learn colours and stuff

i sat in on my sons lesson for 5 mins because he was upset

and they got some pairs of socks all muddled up in a basket and the teacher pegged one on the line and a child that she picked would have to find the other one to match in the basket and peg that next to it

hope some of this helps

Answer 4

they havea lot of fun and learn evething there

Answer 5

Lots of play,... painting, drawing and singing nursery rhymes.

Answer 6

Spending one to one time with each child and praising their responses.

Encouraging sharing and conversation with other children.

Talking about friendships and relationships what do other people do that makes them sad, happy etc.

Talking about what they might do to/with other people to amke them happy / sad etc.

Making paper plate faces, a different one for each mood.  Talk about how you know what someone is feeling.

Encourage lots of laughter.

Answer 7

Show and tell will be something that the children will enjoy, they could bring in a favourite toy or something.

You could get them to draw their favourite meal or snacks, then later you could use them to identify which foods are good and bad.

Dressing up and acting out popular nursery rhymes or fairytales.

Getting them to bring in things which relate to the season such as leaves, concors, flowers, blossom. Then you could explore the way the seasons change.

Answer 8

Any activity that you have to praise the child for is good for their emotional development as it encourages confidence and self esteem and everything follows from there?

However this seems to be a difficult one to answer as you haven't included an awful lot of detail. Maybe you could add some additional comments? For example, is this your child that you want to help at home? Are you a nursery nurse working at a nursery and need some tips? The list of questions could go on and on however I think you get where I'm coming from??

Answer 9

Print off or draw some pictures of people showing different emotions ie sad, happy, angry, surprised. Ask the children id they know what the pictures are of and what makes them that emotion. "What makes you happy?"  "what makes you angry?" etc